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Tag: Playfish
EA shutting down SimCity Social, The Sims Social, and Pet Society
By Nadia Oxford
Flick off the lights. The party's over. According to an announcement from EA this morning, SimCity Social, The Sims Social, and Pet Society are all going offline on June 14. Once those three titles go dark, Playfish's social Facebook presence will fade into blackness, too.The Last Supper: Restaurant City closing its doors on June 29th
By Jim Squires
Hungry for a bite to eat in Restaurant City? You'd better make a reservation real soon - EA has just announced that they'll be shutting the servers down for Facebook's Restaurant City and the iOS-exclusive Restaurant City: Gourmet Edition on June 29th.Facebook’s games ticker drove 93% of The Sims Social’s early traffic
By Nadia Oxford
Recently at GDC, EA Playfish's Creative Director, Ray Mazza, talked a little about what drives Facebook users to try out the games that their friends are playing. To be more specific, Mazza pointed out that the now-defunct games ticker on Facebook was responsible for 93% of the early referral traffic that reached their popular Facebook game, Sims Social.The Sims Social players like to woohoo
Playfish has revealed a number of interesting statistics about players of The Sims Social, and and one thing is clear: the only thing players like more than telling dirty jokes is making woohoo.Risk: Factions unveils “Operation Like”
If you "Like" the upcoming Facebook game Risk: Factions, you'll be able to unlock free in-game content for when the game finally launches. Developer Playfish has unveiled an initiative called "Operation Like," which will see new content unlocked as more people click the "Like" button.The Sims Social stealing players from Zynga, other Sims games
The Sims Social has been one of the few games on Facebook to compete with Zynga's dominance on the platform. Currrently, it sits just behind CityVillewith the second largest playerbase on Facebook, with a current player base of more than 65 million monthly active users. And according to a new report from gaming social network Raptr, many of those players came at the expense of Zynga games and other titles in The Sims series.Vampires and werewolves invade The Sims Social
One of the things that The Sims Social didn't have, unlike its downloadable predecessors, was crazy characters like vampires or aliens. But thanks to "Werewolves vs Vampires" week, that's finally changed.Hotel City, My Empire, four other Playfish games closing down
As The Sims Social sails to the top of the charts on Facebook, six other games from Playfish aren't doing quite as well. In fact, games like My Empire and Hotel City are doing so poorly that the developer will be shutting them down by the end of this month.